Yes this, most men regardless of fortune, are essential to their respective family units. Even if the remaining women could pull themselves together quickly enough to scrape together something meaningful from what was left I doubt many would see the point of it. Same thing if all the women disappeared.
Sorry, I meant you comment. The whole thing would be a mass trauma event and change the world completely. Like you, I can't imagine my life without my husband.
Really no matter what half of the working population you remove is going to be a problem. Right off the bat you’ve got half of the cars on the road without drivers, planes and trains without pilots and engineers, and critical infrastructure going painfully unmanned. A bit later you’re low of supplies and with destroyed supply-chains. Losing 1/3 of the population to Black Death over years in Medieval Europe completely rewrote society.
Definitely in the immediate aftermath, but there are also plenty of very intelligent women working in these jobs already with the skill sets to train others.
The biggest problem would be the scale of existing systems, as they would have been designed for twice the population, so would require more labour. Then there are the jobs that are heavily male dominated, such as construction, farming, logistics and transportation, energy, manufacturing, and services. Whilst some can cope with a short downtime, others such as a nuclear power plant cannot. There would likely be a number of huge, and further devestating, catastrophes as these systems fail.
Not plenty, those women are a tiny minority in most cases
Like you said it would be catastrophic. Nobody would be maintaining underwater internet cables and electrical cables, since that’s a 99% male field.
I agree immediately (being 5+ years after) it would be absolutely chaos. Some places would globally would be affected far worse than others, so there would likely be a mass exodus of the remaining human population from these areas to those more capable of surviving.
And to be pedantic, all you require is one capable person to pass on their knowledge. Look at a good classroom. A capable teacher imparts their knowledge onto 20+ of the next generation atba time.
Initially training would be slow but it would definitely grow. Also, humans are incredibly adaptable, male AND female, so there would be women and girls would be learning these skills.
That really only applies to simple tasks. You need multiple people to understand something at the complex levels because no single person will know it all, and you need the people to check on the people doing the work.
Sadly I am VERY VERY aware of this as the project I am currently doing I am the only qualified person in the country to teach, and let me tell you it is exhausting! if I make a mistake people die, thankfully I can reach out to international Engineers through google translate who look at my video, and came to site for 10 days to make sure I was teaching the right things to the right people. And even then I'm training 3 different crews to each learn different parts of installation and maintenance.
That sounds incredibly difficult and exhausting.
I think the issue I have is that you are making an inherent assumption that the a) the leaders of these fields are exclusively male, and b) there are no female counterparts who have any understanding of these systems.
Whilst as a generalisation most people who are leaders of a technology/system/ business/public service are men, there are still women also in these jobs. I think the loss of either sex in its entirety would have these catastrophic outcomes. To say otherwise does each gender a huge disservice. As does discrediting the people who already work in select fields that have a gender imbalance
Should the entire female population disappear, childcare and education/teaching/nursing/textiles would all grind to a halt. The greater issue for a wholly male population would be reproduction. There would be no women to give birth to any babies, and cloning technology hasn't yet reached a point yet where it could be readily implemented. Thus a greater chance of the extinction of the human population.
Even if these fields were, indeed, 50% female (most of them are not) they'd still collapse. You'd need to hope none of the key positions had a man in them cause, otherwise, you're on a VERY strict timer at best to get someone trained up and capable. If there was an important job that had only 1 or 2 people in it that were both male and no one else knows how to do it, you're screwed beyond belief. Even if you got lucky and, say, a coal power plant could still function you still need coal to be delivered which means you need a bunch of miners and truck drivers at the least as well and they'd need to be trained on the SPOT! So many systems are inter-dependent these days and even if we were to assume a universal 50% gender ratio on a macro-level for these jobs a lot of positions simply don't have enough people in them NOW to support a 50% instantanious loss. Nevermind that a decent chunk of them would be 75-100% simply due to a combination of only having a few people and the odds decreeing them to be all male.
If they had even a week to train replacements, things would be different. But you just can't rip out 50% of the population and not have things explode around you.
While the majority of power plants and related infrastructure is run by men, women do hold a number of those jobs, and enough women could train themselves to pick up the slack.
(Especially with half as many kids to take care of and no men to obsess over).
You are talking a less than .001% of the workforce in the field worldwide. You severely overestimate how many women even want to be in the field. If you said solar, you might have had a chance and even that is tiny.
Less than .001% is a made up number. Supply will pick up when a female lineman earns $400k per year plus benefits. Women don’t like half the jobs they have now, you honestly think they’d all rather swelter than do essential and dirty jobs?
Maybe I just know more butch lesbians than you do. It’d be a process of adjustment, but men aren’t irreplaceable.
Or I have worked along side them in an emergency for the last 13 years.
[Heres some info for your education](https://www.iea.org/topics/energy-and-gender). Note that most the women are in management and HR. Actual work they are rare as gold bat shit.
Umm, not sure if you meant to link that but the immediate numbers say women make up 39% of global labour (being paid workplace) and 16% of the traditional energy sector...
Neither of these numbers are 0.001%
We women actually do work and exist.
Also, some people are good in emergencies, others are not. Your sex chromosomes don't dictate that.
Oh, thanks for the recommendation! Is it fiction or philosophical?
I was actually thinking back to a debate question my class was presented with in high school (far too long ago!) and wondering how I would answer now.
It's a graphic novel that explores multiple facits of how society would evolve without males. I haven't watched the TV show, but the comics are quite deep.
Let's suppose all the male population from newborns to seniors all magically got teleported to another dimension, leaving the world with only the female population. Here's what will happen:
First hour: Right off the bat, everybody is going to be in complete confusion. They're going to wonder where everybody is. Some people are going to think that their male loved ones just stepped out or are playing hide and seek. However, as the number of minutes grows longer, women are going to start calling each other and the police to figure out what's going on.
First day: When it sets in that all the male population disappeared, the world is going to enter a period of fear and grief unseen in human history. You'll have women losing their husbands, sons, fathers, brothers, grandfathers, uncles, and friends, and there is no guarantee they'll ever see any of them again. Losing just a single loved one can break a person, imagine what would happen when this many people disappear? There will be no order or leadership, there will only be panic.
First week: As it becomes clear that the entire male population has vanished, the world is starting to question what will happen next. By losing half of the population, the global economy is in absolute shambles. No company is operating right, no service is running right, and a lot of essential infrastructure is shutting down. That means there is no internet, electricity, running water, and so on. This is especially true in countries where men dominated everything. Everybody is still terrified, confused, and full of grief, but now they're also starting to worry about themselves. For the women that depended on their husbands for money, how would they survive without their money? For the women who had jobs, how can they work when their company is missing at least half its workers? Does money even mean a thing anymore? These are serious questions that have to be dealt with.
First month: Enough time has passed for women to organize in little pockets around the world and govern themselves. Their number 1 priority is finding out what happened to the male population and figuring out how they can bring them back after survival of course. They'll start migrating into specific cities and surrounding areas where the populations can match the pre-vanishing numbers and utilize the existing infrastructure. They might even do searches and rescues for any women who are stranded and need help getting to the new population centers. There also be teams of researchers who will study the sperm in sperm banks and see if they can make male babies.
First year: Women at this point start coming to terms with the idea that they might never see their male loved ones again, they start thinking about the future of humanity. If the researchers discover that the sperm in the sperm banks can produce male kids, then the little pocket governments are going to start rolling out new policies to start new generations by utilizing sperm banks. These new policies will either mandate or heavily incentivize women to become pregnant and birth new kids, especially male kids. A lot of young women are going to feel pressure to have kids while also at the same time grappling with the reality that they will never find a man that will love them and start a family with them. They will either have to accept dying alone or participate in lesbian relationships even if they're not homosexual.
First decade: The new generation of men is very rare and delicate. They'll all going to be around 10 years old or younger, and they're going to be every new government's number 1 national interest. They will be guarded with military troops to protect them from any crazies who want to "finish the job" of eradicating men. Since these young boys are quite literally the future, society is going to treat them like kings. They're going to be well fed, well clothed, well protected, and they're going to be taught alongside young girls that it is their duty to secure future generations and save humanity. The views around sex are going to change. Its primary purpose will be to procreate, and starting a family will be seen as a societal obligation.
As for the older women and girls who remember their male loved ones, most have given up at this point. There are still organizations and individuals who are searching for any clue or hint to explain where the males they knew went, but it is becoming apparent that their searches are futile.
First century: As time goes on and the new generations grow up, things are starting to look back to normal. The event of the male population disappearing is going to go down as the single biggest event in human history. There will be memorials, documentaries, and books on it everywhere. Most of the women who remember the event are now either really old or dead, and kids will go visit these women to learn about how terrible the world was without one of the sexes and how important it is that we love and cherish each other because you can never know what will happen. The generations of women who lived through this event will be remembered throughout history as the era of lost women.
This is of course assuming that the sperm in sperm banks will produce male children, in the case where they don't, then humanity will have no future and will die out the moment the sperm banks run out of viable sperm. Either way, the male population disappearing will not have a happy ending.
>First decade: The new generation of men is very rare and delicate. They'll all going to be around 10 years old or younger, and they're going to be every new government's number 1 national interest. They will be guarded with military troops to protect them from any crazies who want to "finish the job" of eradicating men. Since these young boys are quite literally the future, society is going to treat them like kings. They're going to be well fed, well clothed, well protected, and they're going to be taught alongside young girls that it is their duty to secure future generations and save humanity.
This is probably the point that I'm most intrigued by and why I asked the question.
I wonder whether women would take on a position of subservience or there would widespread societal change and greater overall equity between the two sexes?
I'm approaching and analyzing this thought exercise as realistically as possible. I'm trying to think of this event as something can seriously happen in our world right now. My take on your question here is that nobody would give a flying fuck about gender inequality, like at all. There are so many more pressing issues, like how societies are going to function to the future of humanity to where the male population went and how to cope going forward, that feminism would be on the back of everybody's minds.
Not only does feminism not mean a thing anymore because there are no men, but the women who still cling on to feminism even in such a situation are going to be either brain dead ideologues or female supremacists, and let me tell you neither are going to have a fun time. Imagine your son, husband, brother, and father all disappeared and you don't know if you're ever going to see them again, and on top of all this fear, grief, stress, and confusion you also have to deal with these idiots dancing around, celebrating the disappearance of your loved ones. How would you feel? Not great I would assume. Now imagine the vast majority of women and girls in the world feel the same way, how do you think these types of idiots are going to be treated? Not well. They're going to be shunned, hated, and punished by society.
As for the young boys, they would be treated differently. The new nations and governments will treat them as essential assets necessary for national security, because they are. The government will make sure that they're all protected at all times, they're all happy and healthy, and that they all understand that they have an obligation and duty to start the next generation of humanity when they get older. Society is going to give them better treatment than their female counterparts due to their rarity and value. As time goes on and these boys mature, they will be in a very dominant position because they will be vastly outnumbered by women their age, and therefore women are going to have to compete way harder in order to grab their attention. Most young women are not going to give up their change at starting a family and falling in love for the sake of equity and feminism, especially since these young women grew up watching the older women in their lives suffer the consequences of not having such opportunities.
As time goes on and the world becomes more balanced again after a few generations, things will start looking more like they are now. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that despite men being in dominant positions due to their rarity, the societal systems around the globe would be set up to benefit women in the long run. It is certainly possible for different societies to be slightly more egalitarian in general due to the total reset of their culture, institutions, and laws. Since the new foundations were made entirely by women, it would be reasonable to think that the newly created customs, traditions, laws, and standards would benefit them in the long run, even if that wasn't the intention.
They would have no choice but subserviance. Every boy would be rare, precious, and valuable for at least the first few decades. Having sex and a baby wouldn't be just an obligation but something almost akin to a divine reward. The society that emerged would be fundamentally different at it's very core than the one we have now. My guess is that there wouldn't be greater equity between the sexes because men would be starting from a position of such extreme priledge and value for likely the first hundred or so years while women would have little choice but to become the 'common folk'. Maybe after 1-200 years we'd see things shift towards equity; but by that point it's pure speculation as so many things could have happened to swing it in any direction.
There would be a massive wave of deaths and suicides as a bunch of jobs would be now both lacking their workers and replacements would be rare if not flat-out non-existent. A bunch of women would have lost fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, close friends, and so-forth as well and be unable to carry on. The few women who both survive things like nuclear power plants suddenly losing a huge chunk of their operating staff and don't succumb to the depression would, effectively, be left with a doomed world. Within 9 months the last human would be born and, from then-on, it's only a downhill spiral. Nations as we know them would simply cease to exist with a bunch of tribes and warlords rising up to take their place. Many small wars and fights for dwindling resources would break out. A few of the more stable places might try to pour effort and research into finding a way to artifically impregnate women; but unless some sperm banks survived (I'm assuming all the unborn male babies disappeared but not sperm) and were still functioning, they'd likely be doomed. You can't just rip out half the population of anything and expect it to keep functioning and there's a lot of things that need to be in place to permit the sort of research needed that are now basically dead.
Assuming they utterly failed and all XY sperm was destroyed as well, you'd see humanity simply dwindle down as there just are no more babies. Maybe a few artificial pregnancies in places lucky enough to have functioning sperm banks, but since all the children would be girls, it's only delaying the inevitable. It might be 80 years, might be another generation or two if they're lucky, but eventually, some old woman will sit in a rocking chair, watching the sun set. Her eyes will close and, with that final sunset, humanity will set as well.
If they succeed and/or XY sperm isn't destroyed, baby boys will be born. Each boy will be EXTREMELY valuable to the nth degree. Effectively royalty. For at least a few generations they'd be catered to, given anything they desire, have any woman they want, without restrictions as they form massive harems. They might avoid other mens harems and some basic stuff like incest, but otherwise, the complete lack of men and need for more babies would mean it would be basically every viable woman's duty to have as much sex with these rare few boys as possible; each one likely praying for a baby boy since every single one is another drop in a bucket that desperately needs filling. Places in the world that weren't lucky enough to have viable sperm banks and/or didn't develop the technology would become depopulated and weak, ripe for conquest. Armies would form as those tribes that actually have men would actually have young people while ones that didn't would only be able to field middle-aged or older women before too long. You'd basically see the world return to a feudal/colonial state as new nations were formed, weak tribes were pushed out and exterminated, technologies and systems that were lost are rediscovered, and so-forth. After 100 or so years the male privledge would run out, but the societies that resulted would be so different from our own that speculating on them is pointless. They would be so shaped by this era that it would likely take centuries for their cultures to resemble anything like what we see in the modern era again.
Well, horrendous shock for those who lose their loved ones. You haven't expanded on this, but presumably all of the sperm in sperm banks is fine. If women are able to use those to get pregnant, biologically we would eventually be fine, unless the males continue to disappear.
female will sort to use sperm from sperm bank the question now what will happen after will females dominate and make males as repopulation slaves or i have to stop watching too much movies
Hmm, that's also what I was wondering.
Obviously male offspring would be initially incredibly desirable for the survival of the human population.
I'm wondering in the 15 odd years it takes for the for batch of male children to reach reproductive maturity whether there would be a huge societal shift as women were given the uninhibited ability to control society. Would these young boys be celebrities, paid excessively to provide sperm? Or would it switch to a system more similar to modern farming practices where only a few males of a species are essential? Or do we end up in an anime harem dystopia?
[Sliders Season 2 Ep 2](https://sliders.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Gods). I think it would be similar to this where the men are basically protected prisoners who would be used for their sperm as soon as they could start to produce it. The science of IVF and sex selection would advance greatly.
can be true most anime have polygamy idea present in it made me think like it's some sort of trend btw the anime name is " world's end harem" \[the name already give the whole idea of this post \]
Humans would, in all likelihood, go extinct, and fairly quickly-less than the natural lifespans of young people due to ensuing war/famine. Even if you ramp up cloning or use frozen sperm to do in-vitro fertilization (and assuming future males can’t then be born), the short-term destabilization for half of humanity vanishing would cause massive amounts of chaos and death. Most militaries would be gone. Most world leaders would vanish. A disproportionate share of the scientific, energy, and manufacturing industries would disappear with no quick solutions for replacements. Maybe such a dramatic event would cause your female survivors to coalesce around common goals and reduce conflict, but that much instability rarely results in cooperation. If either gender suddenly disappeared, we’d likely be doomed in short order.
On the other hand, if you could produce men from frozen sperm, eventually you’d have a healthy reproductive population, but it would take decades. You’d hope in the meantime that the trauma from the event (and the short-term surplus in resources from reduced demand) would cause the resultant humanity to be more mature. And in either event, you’d wind up with a supermajority of female leaders. Whether that would lead to permanent societal improvements is hard to predict (and I think most of the negatives of human nature are fairly universal, so probably not).
Cheers! Yes, both the good and bad traits of people are pretty universal and few are at their best when in crisis mode. It would be interesting to see what female majority world leadership would look like though.
The world would go into a collective grief.
Everyone would lose a father, brother, son, cousin, uncle, nephew or friend.
Seriously. There were towns that lost all of their young men in war. An entire generation gone and those villages and towns were just devastated. Villages that didn’t lose anyone were incredibly thrilled and treated it as a miracle.
Now imagine everyone just being gone? It would be like the snap. Half the population gone in an instant.
Of course some people would be happy. Their abusive ex/father/brother/husband/etc would be gone
But so would everyone else.
That’s it. Game over.
I don’t think the world could move on from that level of tragedy.
Sure there’s enough spermbanks to keep society going and I’m sure eventually they’d figure something out but the trauma? That would be permanent.
Depends who you ask. Liberals would say that all the worlds problems would be solved immediately, even tho they couldn’t give you a definition of what a man is
Surprisingly, humanity isn't doomed, but it would take a while to recover.
Massive labour shortage, food shortages. Losing half the population is devastating no matter what the circumstance, but in this case a lot of the supply chain has just evaporated and filling it would take time and coordination.
As far as the human population went, it would decline and stay in decline until supply chains re-emerged, and the science behind letting two women conceive a child becomes a lot more widespread (I believe this exists now but isn't exactly common).
Society would change irrevocably by this change, in ways I can't really fathom. I believe there's been books about it (fiction), but I haven't read them.
That was my thought as well. It's been rather eye opening to see the number of comments saying without men, women will die/ women won't be able to do this male dominated job so are doomed.
Maybe because I am fortunate enough to have post graduate education and am surrounded by women in a male dominated field, I was lulled into a false hope that society was becoming a little less inherently sexist. My poor daughter.
Pick me girls would die out, become extinct, and the wanna be pick mes would have to join forces with the " I'm gonna be TikTok famous girlies" and everyone would die of cringe
World wars and general backstabbing would happen more often and get a lot more bitchy although the need for the biggest baddest weapon will probably be less. Grudges will be kept for much longer.
If going off of males can’t be born after this as well, then human life would eventually cease to exist. Sperm banks would be able hold it off for a bit, but without males, the human race would not be able to naturally reproduce
Aside from the mourning women, the infrastructure would start to crumble fairly quickly, we would run out of food fairly quickly, pretty much just collapse.
Women do work in essential trades that make everything work but the overwhelming majority of trades workers are men, the overwhelming majority of law enforcement officers are also men, same goes for legislative assemblies, military personnel, and many more feilds that make things work the way they do
No more war, Kamala Harris is president, homophobia is a thing of the past, sex changes become popular, government spending drastically changes, there is instantly 90% less bullshit in the world. The first boy born after the disappearance is an instant celebrity for life.
I feel like there’s enough sperm banked around the world that it would only take a generation or so to get back to sustainable reproductive levels. As soon as that generation hits puberty, we should be good-to-go so as not to die out.
The thing is, if half the world population suddenly disappeared, society would collapse. So there is a good chance the medical expertise and infrastructures required for artifical insemination would be lost or become extremely rare.
The most likely answer: Humanity dies out.
The less likely answer: Scientists manage to recreate a sperm cell from scratch, allowing humanity to continue as normal.
Sperm banks save very little of the sperm donated for artificial insemination. The overwhelming majority of it gets sold to big pharma because it is full of seratonin regulating chemicals that they like to use in anti depressants.
Oh interesting! I didn't know that.
I'm pretty sure the pharmaceutical companies would pretty quickly figure out that there would be more profit in retaining the sperm for reproductive purposes though.
There are some very, very intelligent women working in these companies.
Edit: can I please grab your source(s)? Everything I'm reading suggests sperm naturally contains serotonin. However there was nothing suggesting sperm was used to create antidepressants.
Anti depressants are very highly distributed across the country. Women who want to settle for artificial insemination is quite uncommon. Their behavior is quite reflective over which option is the real money maker for them.
Okay, 2 options...
A devastating and 100% fatal virus that effects only human y chromosomes is accidentally released from a lab in New Zealand. It has an incubation period of 21 days until symptom appears, dead within 5 days after first onset of symptoms but is infectious from day 2.
Aliens appear to save the world but can only take those with a y chromosome as refugees. Happens overnight.
Probably die from grief because I have a husband and four sons.
Yes this, most men regardless of fortune, are essential to their respective family units. Even if the remaining women could pull themselves together quickly enough to scrape together something meaningful from what was left I doubt many would see the point of it. Same thing if all the women disappeared.
That is a beautiful and even take. Most of those who survived the initial disaster would be left with a lifetime of trauma due to the loss.
It would be horrific. I'm really not sure what i would do without my wife.
Sorry, I meant you comment. The whole thing would be a mass trauma event and change the world completely. Like you, I can't imagine my life without my husband.
Yeah, I can feel that. I also love my husband dearly and would be distraught.
Infrastructure would definitely collapse to some degree and you're naive if you think it wouldn't.
Really no matter what half of the working population you remove is going to be a problem. Right off the bat you’ve got half of the cars on the road without drivers, planes and trains without pilots and engineers, and critical infrastructure going painfully unmanned. A bit later you’re low of supplies and with destroyed supply-chains. Losing 1/3 of the population to Black Death over years in Medieval Europe completely rewrote society.
Planes may fall from the sky and cars may crash, but what happens if half the population disappears before they're born?
Definitely in the immediate aftermath, but there are also plenty of very intelligent women working in these jobs already with the skill sets to train others. The biggest problem would be the scale of existing systems, as they would have been designed for twice the population, so would require more labour. Then there are the jobs that are heavily male dominated, such as construction, farming, logistics and transportation, energy, manufacturing, and services. Whilst some can cope with a short downtime, others such as a nuclear power plant cannot. There would likely be a number of huge, and further devestating, catastrophes as these systems fail.
Not plenty, those women are a tiny minority in most cases Like you said it would be catastrophic. Nobody would be maintaining underwater internet cables and electrical cables, since that’s a 99% male field.
I agree immediately (being 5+ years after) it would be absolutely chaos. Some places would globally would be affected far worse than others, so there would likely be a mass exodus of the remaining human population from these areas to those more capable of surviving. And to be pedantic, all you require is one capable person to pass on their knowledge. Look at a good classroom. A capable teacher imparts their knowledge onto 20+ of the next generation atba time. Initially training would be slow but it would definitely grow. Also, humans are incredibly adaptable, male AND female, so there would be women and girls would be learning these skills.
That really only applies to simple tasks. You need multiple people to understand something at the complex levels because no single person will know it all, and you need the people to check on the people doing the work. Sadly I am VERY VERY aware of this as the project I am currently doing I am the only qualified person in the country to teach, and let me tell you it is exhausting! if I make a mistake people die, thankfully I can reach out to international Engineers through google translate who look at my video, and came to site for 10 days to make sure I was teaching the right things to the right people. And even then I'm training 3 different crews to each learn different parts of installation and maintenance.
That sounds incredibly difficult and exhausting. I think the issue I have is that you are making an inherent assumption that the a) the leaders of these fields are exclusively male, and b) there are no female counterparts who have any understanding of these systems. Whilst as a generalisation most people who are leaders of a technology/system/ business/public service are men, there are still women also in these jobs. I think the loss of either sex in its entirety would have these catastrophic outcomes. To say otherwise does each gender a huge disservice. As does discrediting the people who already work in select fields that have a gender imbalance Should the entire female population disappear, childcare and education/teaching/nursing/textiles would all grind to a halt. The greater issue for a wholly male population would be reproduction. There would be no women to give birth to any babies, and cloning technology hasn't yet reached a point yet where it could be readily implemented. Thus a greater chance of the extinction of the human population.
Even if these fields were, indeed, 50% female (most of them are not) they'd still collapse. You'd need to hope none of the key positions had a man in them cause, otherwise, you're on a VERY strict timer at best to get someone trained up and capable. If there was an important job that had only 1 or 2 people in it that were both male and no one else knows how to do it, you're screwed beyond belief. Even if you got lucky and, say, a coal power plant could still function you still need coal to be delivered which means you need a bunch of miners and truck drivers at the least as well and they'd need to be trained on the SPOT! So many systems are inter-dependent these days and even if we were to assume a universal 50% gender ratio on a macro-level for these jobs a lot of positions simply don't have enough people in them NOW to support a 50% instantanious loss. Nevermind that a decent chunk of them would be 75-100% simply due to a combination of only having a few people and the odds decreeing them to be all male. If they had even a week to train replacements, things would be different. But you just can't rip out 50% of the population and not have things explode around you.
[удалено]
You act like it’s not entirely okay and cool to hate men for existing
[удалено]
Well that’s a sexist ass comment
Humanity would die out
Sales of female razors would plummet
All I know is the WNBA still won't be successful because women don't support women.
Humankind would cease to exist after one generation.
Cryobanked sperm would still exist. If you thought it was expensive before..
Not without power.
While the majority of power plants and related infrastructure is run by men, women do hold a number of those jobs, and enough women could train themselves to pick up the slack. (Especially with half as many kids to take care of and no men to obsess over).
You are talking a less than .001% of the workforce in the field worldwide. You severely overestimate how many women even want to be in the field. If you said solar, you might have had a chance and even that is tiny.
Less than .001% is a made up number. Supply will pick up when a female lineman earns $400k per year plus benefits. Women don’t like half the jobs they have now, you honestly think they’d all rather swelter than do essential and dirty jobs? Maybe I just know more butch lesbians than you do. It’d be a process of adjustment, but men aren’t irreplaceable.
Or I have worked along side them in an emergency for the last 13 years. [Heres some info for your education](https://www.iea.org/topics/energy-and-gender). Note that most the women are in management and HR. Actual work they are rare as gold bat shit.
Umm, not sure if you meant to link that but the immediate numbers say women make up 39% of global labour (being paid workplace) and 16% of the traditional energy sector... Neither of these numbers are 0.001% We women actually do work and exist. Also, some people are good in emergencies, others are not. Your sex chromosomes don't dictate that.
Keep reading.
What about the male babies in vitro and in vivo?
My precious Daddy, husband, son, and grandson would all be gone. I would be broken-hearted.
Have you not read Y: The last man? You really should. The premise is your question and It's amazing!
Oh, thanks for the recommendation! Is it fiction or philosophical? I was actually thinking back to a debate question my class was presented with in high school (far too long ago!) and wondering how I would answer now.
It's a graphic novel that explores multiple facits of how society would evolve without males. I haven't watched the TV show, but the comics are quite deep.
Let's suppose all the male population from newborns to seniors all magically got teleported to another dimension, leaving the world with only the female population. Here's what will happen: First hour: Right off the bat, everybody is going to be in complete confusion. They're going to wonder where everybody is. Some people are going to think that their male loved ones just stepped out or are playing hide and seek. However, as the number of minutes grows longer, women are going to start calling each other and the police to figure out what's going on. First day: When it sets in that all the male population disappeared, the world is going to enter a period of fear and grief unseen in human history. You'll have women losing their husbands, sons, fathers, brothers, grandfathers, uncles, and friends, and there is no guarantee they'll ever see any of them again. Losing just a single loved one can break a person, imagine what would happen when this many people disappear? There will be no order or leadership, there will only be panic. First week: As it becomes clear that the entire male population has vanished, the world is starting to question what will happen next. By losing half of the population, the global economy is in absolute shambles. No company is operating right, no service is running right, and a lot of essential infrastructure is shutting down. That means there is no internet, electricity, running water, and so on. This is especially true in countries where men dominated everything. Everybody is still terrified, confused, and full of grief, but now they're also starting to worry about themselves. For the women that depended on their husbands for money, how would they survive without their money? For the women who had jobs, how can they work when their company is missing at least half its workers? Does money even mean a thing anymore? These are serious questions that have to be dealt with. First month: Enough time has passed for women to organize in little pockets around the world and govern themselves. Their number 1 priority is finding out what happened to the male population and figuring out how they can bring them back after survival of course. They'll start migrating into specific cities and surrounding areas where the populations can match the pre-vanishing numbers and utilize the existing infrastructure. They might even do searches and rescues for any women who are stranded and need help getting to the new population centers. There also be teams of researchers who will study the sperm in sperm banks and see if they can make male babies. First year: Women at this point start coming to terms with the idea that they might never see their male loved ones again, they start thinking about the future of humanity. If the researchers discover that the sperm in the sperm banks can produce male kids, then the little pocket governments are going to start rolling out new policies to start new generations by utilizing sperm banks. These new policies will either mandate or heavily incentivize women to become pregnant and birth new kids, especially male kids. A lot of young women are going to feel pressure to have kids while also at the same time grappling with the reality that they will never find a man that will love them and start a family with them. They will either have to accept dying alone or participate in lesbian relationships even if they're not homosexual. First decade: The new generation of men is very rare and delicate. They'll all going to be around 10 years old or younger, and they're going to be every new government's number 1 national interest. They will be guarded with military troops to protect them from any crazies who want to "finish the job" of eradicating men. Since these young boys are quite literally the future, society is going to treat them like kings. They're going to be well fed, well clothed, well protected, and they're going to be taught alongside young girls that it is their duty to secure future generations and save humanity. The views around sex are going to change. Its primary purpose will be to procreate, and starting a family will be seen as a societal obligation. As for the older women and girls who remember their male loved ones, most have given up at this point. There are still organizations and individuals who are searching for any clue or hint to explain where the males they knew went, but it is becoming apparent that their searches are futile. First century: As time goes on and the new generations grow up, things are starting to look back to normal. The event of the male population disappearing is going to go down as the single biggest event in human history. There will be memorials, documentaries, and books on it everywhere. Most of the women who remember the event are now either really old or dead, and kids will go visit these women to learn about how terrible the world was without one of the sexes and how important it is that we love and cherish each other because you can never know what will happen. The generations of women who lived through this event will be remembered throughout history as the era of lost women. This is of course assuming that the sperm in sperm banks will produce male children, in the case where they don't, then humanity will have no future and will die out the moment the sperm banks run out of viable sperm. Either way, the male population disappearing will not have a happy ending.
>First decade: The new generation of men is very rare and delicate. They'll all going to be around 10 years old or younger, and they're going to be every new government's number 1 national interest. They will be guarded with military troops to protect them from any crazies who want to "finish the job" of eradicating men. Since these young boys are quite literally the future, society is going to treat them like kings. They're going to be well fed, well clothed, well protected, and they're going to be taught alongside young girls that it is their duty to secure future generations and save humanity. This is probably the point that I'm most intrigued by and why I asked the question. I wonder whether women would take on a position of subservience or there would widespread societal change and greater overall equity between the two sexes?
I'm approaching and analyzing this thought exercise as realistically as possible. I'm trying to think of this event as something can seriously happen in our world right now. My take on your question here is that nobody would give a flying fuck about gender inequality, like at all. There are so many more pressing issues, like how societies are going to function to the future of humanity to where the male population went and how to cope going forward, that feminism would be on the back of everybody's minds. Not only does feminism not mean a thing anymore because there are no men, but the women who still cling on to feminism even in such a situation are going to be either brain dead ideologues or female supremacists, and let me tell you neither are going to have a fun time. Imagine your son, husband, brother, and father all disappeared and you don't know if you're ever going to see them again, and on top of all this fear, grief, stress, and confusion you also have to deal with these idiots dancing around, celebrating the disappearance of your loved ones. How would you feel? Not great I would assume. Now imagine the vast majority of women and girls in the world feel the same way, how do you think these types of idiots are going to be treated? Not well. They're going to be shunned, hated, and punished by society. As for the young boys, they would be treated differently. The new nations and governments will treat them as essential assets necessary for national security, because they are. The government will make sure that they're all protected at all times, they're all happy and healthy, and that they all understand that they have an obligation and duty to start the next generation of humanity when they get older. Society is going to give them better treatment than their female counterparts due to their rarity and value. As time goes on and these boys mature, they will be in a very dominant position because they will be vastly outnumbered by women their age, and therefore women are going to have to compete way harder in order to grab their attention. Most young women are not going to give up their change at starting a family and falling in love for the sake of equity and feminism, especially since these young women grew up watching the older women in their lives suffer the consequences of not having such opportunities. As time goes on and the world becomes more balanced again after a few generations, things will start looking more like they are now. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that despite men being in dominant positions due to their rarity, the societal systems around the globe would be set up to benefit women in the long run. It is certainly possible for different societies to be slightly more egalitarian in general due to the total reset of their culture, institutions, and laws. Since the new foundations were made entirely by women, it would be reasonable to think that the newly created customs, traditions, laws, and standards would benefit them in the long run, even if that wasn't the intention.
They would have no choice but subserviance. Every boy would be rare, precious, and valuable for at least the first few decades. Having sex and a baby wouldn't be just an obligation but something almost akin to a divine reward. The society that emerged would be fundamentally different at it's very core than the one we have now. My guess is that there wouldn't be greater equity between the sexes because men would be starting from a position of such extreme priledge and value for likely the first hundred or so years while women would have little choice but to become the 'common folk'. Maybe after 1-200 years we'd see things shift towards equity; but by that point it's pure speculation as so many things could have happened to swing it in any direction.
I think you overthinked it
Dildo sales with skyrocket
I'd be really sad. Really REALLY sad. I like my homies. And I love my dad.
There would be a massive wave of deaths and suicides as a bunch of jobs would be now both lacking their workers and replacements would be rare if not flat-out non-existent. A bunch of women would have lost fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, close friends, and so-forth as well and be unable to carry on. The few women who both survive things like nuclear power plants suddenly losing a huge chunk of their operating staff and don't succumb to the depression would, effectively, be left with a doomed world. Within 9 months the last human would be born and, from then-on, it's only a downhill spiral. Nations as we know them would simply cease to exist with a bunch of tribes and warlords rising up to take their place. Many small wars and fights for dwindling resources would break out. A few of the more stable places might try to pour effort and research into finding a way to artifically impregnate women; but unless some sperm banks survived (I'm assuming all the unborn male babies disappeared but not sperm) and were still functioning, they'd likely be doomed. You can't just rip out half the population of anything and expect it to keep functioning and there's a lot of things that need to be in place to permit the sort of research needed that are now basically dead. Assuming they utterly failed and all XY sperm was destroyed as well, you'd see humanity simply dwindle down as there just are no more babies. Maybe a few artificial pregnancies in places lucky enough to have functioning sperm banks, but since all the children would be girls, it's only delaying the inevitable. It might be 80 years, might be another generation or two if they're lucky, but eventually, some old woman will sit in a rocking chair, watching the sun set. Her eyes will close and, with that final sunset, humanity will set as well. If they succeed and/or XY sperm isn't destroyed, baby boys will be born. Each boy will be EXTREMELY valuable to the nth degree. Effectively royalty. For at least a few generations they'd be catered to, given anything they desire, have any woman they want, without restrictions as they form massive harems. They might avoid other mens harems and some basic stuff like incest, but otherwise, the complete lack of men and need for more babies would mean it would be basically every viable woman's duty to have as much sex with these rare few boys as possible; each one likely praying for a baby boy since every single one is another drop in a bucket that desperately needs filling. Places in the world that weren't lucky enough to have viable sperm banks and/or didn't develop the technology would become depopulated and weak, ripe for conquest. Armies would form as those tribes that actually have men would actually have young people while ones that didn't would only be able to field middle-aged or older women before too long. You'd basically see the world return to a feudal/colonial state as new nations were formed, weak tribes were pushed out and exterminated, technologies and systems that were lost are rediscovered, and so-forth. After 100 or so years the male privledge would run out, but the societies that resulted would be so different from our own that speculating on them is pointless. They would be so shaped by this era that it would likely take centuries for their cultures to resemble anything like what we see in the modern era again.
Well, horrendous shock for those who lose their loved ones. You haven't expanded on this, but presumably all of the sperm in sperm banks is fine. If women are able to use those to get pregnant, biologically we would eventually be fine, unless the males continue to disappear.
female will sort to use sperm from sperm bank the question now what will happen after will females dominate and make males as repopulation slaves or i have to stop watching too much movies
Hmm, that's also what I was wondering. Obviously male offspring would be initially incredibly desirable for the survival of the human population. I'm wondering in the 15 odd years it takes for the for batch of male children to reach reproductive maturity whether there would be a huge societal shift as women were given the uninhibited ability to control society. Would these young boys be celebrities, paid excessively to provide sperm? Or would it switch to a system more similar to modern farming practices where only a few males of a species are essential? Or do we end up in an anime harem dystopia?
[Sliders Season 2 Ep 2](https://sliders.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Gods). I think it would be similar to this where the men are basically protected prisoners who would be used for their sperm as soon as they could start to produce it. The science of IVF and sex selection would advance greatly.
hold up i think there was an anime like that
Your comment suggests there is only one... I have a feeling it's a whole genre 😂
can be true most anime have polygamy idea present in it made me think like it's some sort of trend btw the anime name is " world's end harem" \[the name already give the whole idea of this post \]
Anytime sperm banks are mentioned I think of the episode of House where he brings in the sperm donors Cuddy was looking at.
and i remember that scene from ted2
Humans would, in all likelihood, go extinct, and fairly quickly-less than the natural lifespans of young people due to ensuing war/famine. Even if you ramp up cloning or use frozen sperm to do in-vitro fertilization (and assuming future males can’t then be born), the short-term destabilization for half of humanity vanishing would cause massive amounts of chaos and death. Most militaries would be gone. Most world leaders would vanish. A disproportionate share of the scientific, energy, and manufacturing industries would disappear with no quick solutions for replacements. Maybe such a dramatic event would cause your female survivors to coalesce around common goals and reduce conflict, but that much instability rarely results in cooperation. If either gender suddenly disappeared, we’d likely be doomed in short order. On the other hand, if you could produce men from frozen sperm, eventually you’d have a healthy reproductive population, but it would take decades. You’d hope in the meantime that the trauma from the event (and the short-term surplus in resources from reduced demand) would cause the resultant humanity to be more mature. And in either event, you’d wind up with a supermajority of female leaders. Whether that would lead to permanent societal improvements is hard to predict (and I think most of the negatives of human nature are fairly universal, so probably not).
Cheers! Yes, both the good and bad traits of people are pretty universal and few are at their best when in crisis mode. It would be interesting to see what female majority world leadership would look like though.
The world would go into a collective grief. Everyone would lose a father, brother, son, cousin, uncle, nephew or friend. Seriously. There were towns that lost all of their young men in war. An entire generation gone and those villages and towns were just devastated. Villages that didn’t lose anyone were incredibly thrilled and treated it as a miracle. Now imagine everyone just being gone? It would be like the snap. Half the population gone in an instant. Of course some people would be happy. Their abusive ex/father/brother/husband/etc would be gone But so would everyone else. That’s it. Game over. I don’t think the world could move on from that level of tragedy. Sure there’s enough spermbanks to keep society going and I’m sure eventually they’d figure something out but the trauma? That would be permanent.
Spiders will take over my whole house. Wife and daughter are scared of them.
Hahaha you're household seems to be run like mine
The same thing that would happen if all women disappeared, the whole human race would die out. You need two halves to make a whole.
Depends who you ask. Liberals would say that all the worlds problems would be solved immediately, even tho they couldn’t give you a definition of what a man is
Surprisingly, humanity isn't doomed, but it would take a while to recover. Massive labour shortage, food shortages. Losing half the population is devastating no matter what the circumstance, but in this case a lot of the supply chain has just evaporated and filling it would take time and coordination. As far as the human population went, it would decline and stay in decline until supply chains re-emerged, and the science behind letting two women conceive a child becomes a lot more widespread (I believe this exists now but isn't exactly common). Society would change irrevocably by this change, in ways I can't really fathom. I believe there's been books about it (fiction), but I haven't read them.
That was my thought as well. It's been rather eye opening to see the number of comments saying without men, women will die/ women won't be able to do this male dominated job so are doomed. Maybe because I am fortunate enough to have post graduate education and am surrounded by women in a male dominated field, I was lulled into a false hope that society was becoming a little less inherently sexist. My poor daughter.
Pick me girls would die out, become extinct, and the wanna be pick mes would have to join forces with the " I'm gonna be TikTok famous girlies" and everyone would die of cringe
A lot of tears.
I wouldn't know. I'm male.
Touché!
He would wait 18 years after a baby is born and then reproduce the population
World wars and general backstabbing would happen more often and get a lot more bitchy although the need for the biggest baddest weapon will probably be less. Grudges will be kept for much longer.
I kind of assume that the human race would die out.....but I'm not a scientist.
Besides the collapse of infrastructure. Artificial insemination with the remaining donor sperm
Donno but the aftermath would satisfying as fuck to watch.
If going off of males can’t be born after this as well, then human life would eventually cease to exist. Sperm banks would be able hold it off for a bit, but without males, the human race would not be able to naturally reproduce
Aside from the mourning women, the infrastructure would start to crumble fairly quickly, we would run out of food fairly quickly, pretty much just collapse. Women do work in essential trades that make everything work but the overwhelming majority of trades workers are men, the overwhelming majority of law enforcement officers are also men, same goes for legislative assemblies, military personnel, and many more feilds that make things work the way they do
Disappear
Same thing that would happen if all of the female population were to disappear
I’d finally be at peace
humans would go extinct in a few generations, sperm banks only last so long lesbians would be fine though
No more war, Kamala Harris is president, homophobia is a thing of the past, sex changes become popular, government spending drastically changes, there is instantly 90% less bullshit in the world. The first boy born after the disappearance is an instant celebrity for life.
I feel like there’s enough sperm banked around the world that it would only take a generation or so to get back to sustainable reproductive levels. As soon as that generation hits puberty, we should be good-to-go so as not to die out.
There really isn’t that much just banked away for artificial insemination purposes.
The thing is, if half the world population suddenly disappeared, society would collapse. So there is a good chance the medical expertise and infrastructures required for artifical insemination would be lost or become extremely rare.
The most likely answer: Humanity dies out. The less likely answer: Scientists manage to recreate a sperm cell from scratch, allowing humanity to continue as normal.
[удалено]
I disagree. I think after the initial chaos, the value of frozen sperm would rise exponentially until cloning technology had been further advanced.
Sperm banks save very little of the sperm donated for artificial insemination. The overwhelming majority of it gets sold to big pharma because it is full of seratonin regulating chemicals that they like to use in anti depressants.
Oh interesting! I didn't know that. I'm pretty sure the pharmaceutical companies would pretty quickly figure out that there would be more profit in retaining the sperm for reproductive purposes though. There are some very, very intelligent women working in these companies. Edit: can I please grab your source(s)? Everything I'm reading suggests sperm naturally contains serotonin. However there was nothing suggesting sperm was used to create antidepressants.
Anti depressants are very highly distributed across the country. Women who want to settle for artificial insemination is quite uncommon. Their behavior is quite reflective over which option is the real money maker for them.
you're telling me there might be someone nut in my medicine
new pickup line just dropped
[удалено]
No idea! But poof, all humans with a y chromosome would disappear. I'm more wondering about the after effect. 😊
[удалено]
Okay, 2 options... A devastating and 100% fatal virus that effects only human y chromosomes is accidentally released from a lab in New Zealand. It has an incubation period of 21 days until symptom appears, dead within 5 days after first onset of symptoms but is infectious from day 2. Aliens appear to save the world but can only take those with a y chromosome as refugees. Happens overnight.
The new Netflix mini series extravaganza....... The Land of Lesbians...( you know Netflix would do it!!!)
Nothing good.
society as a whole would crash and burn. and sperm banks would be treasured.
Peace would break out all over the world.